We had a tradition of having meaningful names at Netops...
1.51 verson was Backardi
2.5 version was Argentum (silver anniversary)
"Fledge" was in honor of new manager by the name of Wing
"Quad" was supposed to fix an n^2 behavior
"Truth" and "Pravda" were two halves of an obvious deathmarch ("You can't handle the truth")
A project was named Houdini because it would be a miracle if it was ever released.
Another was Pocra (poller-crawler), which later turned into Piece of Crap
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This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet.
-- [link|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx|The] Daily WTF